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below, endangering staff. The DND first sought $ 527,000 in damages for its efforts to protect employees, an amount that was later increased to $ 1.04 million. The lawsuit claimed that the issue had been exacerbated when chain link fencing on the bridge had been removed during the 1999 modernization.
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